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Someone (maybe a company making software development tools, e.g. 😉) should do research and design properly ergonomic keyboard shortcuts for code editors. It's tiring to see different and (mastodon.social)

submitted 3 months ago by dkandalov@mastodon.social to c/jetbrains@programming.dev

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Someone (maybe a company making software development tools, e.g. @jetbrains 😉) should do research and design properly ergonomic keyboard shortcuts for code editors. It's tiring to see different and mostly "accidental" shortcuts everywhere.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can literally pick from a list of various different keyboard maps

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/configuring-keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts.html

Relevant XKDC

[–] dkandalov@mastodon.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@breadsmasher Yes, and AFAIK none of them are based on any research or actual design. The XKCD is really valid. Maybe it should be a coordinated attempt by couple popular text editors.

You can't standardise everything, but the basic most common actions could be. There is already a small subset which works across the majority of editors, ctrl/cmd+ZXCV for example.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The entire QWERTY layout as far as I remember wasn’t based on any design or research

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's wrong. Qwerty was eventually chosen by the inventor because it was the most efficient design. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/history-and-evolution-of-qwerty-keyboard

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the interesting article! But it doesn’t really specify a specific research and design. Just theories? But I would defer to the article and I am just misreading something